The project aims to reach a variety of GEF marine
and coastal stakeholders including project
managers, international and local project staff,
government officials, implementing agency staff,
non-governmental organizations, business community
and others.

GEF LME:LEARN is improving global ecosystem-based
governance of Large Marine Ecosystems
and their coasts by generating knowledge,
building capacity, harnessing public and private
and north-to-south learning
partners and supporting south-to-south and north-to-south learning

LMEs and the Sustainable Development Goals

SDG14 is one of the most ambitious of the 17 SDGs particularly in terms of the accelerated time frames for achieving several of the targets. Successful implementation of SDG14 requires replication and rapid scaling up of proven strategic approaches that can deliver on one or more SDG14 targets.

LMEs are important because they are a unique “platform” that brings countries together, at a high level, to work toward shared ocean governance.

The LME Approach to the assessment and management of coastal ocean goods and services has provided, and will continue to provide, a unifying strategy for meeting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Produced by the LME:LEARN Project, managed by the
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation,
implemented by the United Nations Development Programme
and funded by the Global Environment Facility

Most of the world’s 66 Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) encompass two or more nations and often individually cover over 200,000 km2.